The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
WOODROW WILSONTo do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
-
-
The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
WOODROW WILSON -
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
WOODROW WILSON -
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
WOODROW WILSON -
Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
WOODROW WILSON -
Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
WOODROW WILSON -
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
WOODROW WILSON -
Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
WOODROW WILSON -
The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
WOODROW WILSON -
We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
WOODROW WILSON -
The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
WOODROW WILSON -
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
WOODROW WILSON -
A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
WOODROW WILSON -
What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
WOODROW WILSON -
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
WOODROW WILSON -
We grow by our dreams.
WOODROW WILSON






